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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510857" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poor Honest Men</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(A.D. 1800)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Your jar of Virginny<br>Will cost you a guinea,<br>Which you reckon too much by five shillings or ten;<br>But light your churchwarden<br>And judge it according,<br>When I've told you the troubles of poor honest men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the Capes of the Delaware,<br>As you are well aware,<br>We sail which tobacco for England-but then,<br>Our own British cruisers,<br>They watch us come through, sirs,<br>And they press half a score of us poor honest men!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or if by quick sailing<br>(Thick weather prevailing )<br>We leave them behind ( as we do now and then)<br>We are sure of a gun from<br>Each frigate we run from,<br>Which is often destruction to poor honest men!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Broadsides the Atlantic<br>We tumble short-handed,<br>With shot-holes to plug and new canvas to bend;<br>And off the Azores,<br>Dutch, Dons and Monsieurs<br>Are waiting to terrify poor honest men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Napoleon's embargo<br>Is laid on all cargo<br>Which comfort or aid to King George may intend;<br>And since roll, twist and leaf,<br>Of all comforts is chief,<br>They try for to steal it from poor honest men!<br>With no heart for fight,<br>We take refuge in flight,<br>But fire as we run, our retreat to defend;<br>Until our stern-chasers<br>Cut up her fore-braces,<br>And she flies off the wind from us poor honest men!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twix' the Forties and Fifties,<br>South-eastward the drift is,<br>And so, when we think we are making Land's End<br>Alas, it is Ushant <br>With half the King's Navy<br>Blockading French ports against poor honest men!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But they may not quit station<br>(Which is our salvation )<br>So swiftly we stand to the Nor'ard again;<br>And finding the tail of<br>A homeward-bound convoy, <br>We slip past the Scillies like poor honest men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twix' the Lizard and Dover,<br>We hand our stuff over,<br>Though I may not inform how we do it, nor when.<br>But a light on each quarter,<br>Low down on the water,<br>Is well understanded by poor honest men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even then we have dangers,<br>From meddlesome strangers,<br>Who spy on our business and are not content<br>To take a smooth answer,<br>Except with a handspike . . .<br>And they say they are murdered by poor honest men!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be drowned or be shot<br>Is our natural lot,<br>Why should we, moreover, be hanged in the end---<br>After all our great pains<br>For to dangle in chains<br>As though we were smugglers, not poor honest men?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q>
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Your jar of Virginny
Will cost you a guinea,
Which you reckon too much by five shillings or ten;
But light your churchwarden
And judge it according,
When I've told you the troubles of poor honest men.

From the Capes of the Delaware,..."></div>
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